“In May of 1945, only a few weeks after the fighting had ended in Europe, I was rotated back to the States,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“But I never did escape from this plot-driven world into a more congenial, subtly probable, innerly propelled narrative of my own devising--didn't… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
